You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too…

Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.

— William Shakespeare

“...the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one”

— Joe Ambercrombie

We would make our heroes shallow… We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

— Anne Rice

“Even if I’m so old that my bones are as brittle as chalk, I’ll find you. Even if there is an ocean between us,…

— Anonymous

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might…

— Mark Lawrence

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Please handle with care.its brittle and fragile...ma

— Mrthrill

The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“No, it wasn't aging that made someone brittle, it was disappointment that did. It was allowing the world to make you smaller and smaller…

— Kathy Dunnehoff

But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

— John Burdett

Brittle things come in hard boxes

— Ankur Dubey

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

— Phyllis McGinley

The brittle is easy to shatter.

— Laozi